Und euch allen, die diesen Beitrag ansehen, wünsche ich einen guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr und alles Gute für 2016!
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The challenge of this Muster Mixer was to choose two tangles ourselves and mix them.
Not that easy, when you have so much choice!
Just some days before the end of this month (and this year..) I found some time and was in the mood to take this challenge.

I decided to use the patternsInapod by Carole Ohl (CZT) andSteps by Helen Williams.

While tangling I got more and more ideas what to do differently, however:

It is what it is and it is good the way it is!
This is my motto for 2016 - and my declaration of war on perfectionism!

Sonntag, 15. November 2015

It is not easy to post results of our hobby on this blog while we see and hear about the terrible terroristic attacks in Paris. My thoughts and my heart are in Paris - with all the people who grieve for the victims. Rest in peace!

Dienstag, 10. November 2015

Hello everyone, this post is without a Zentangle tile, but related to one...
Two weeks ago we had DIVA Challenge # 241 with Guest Blogger Paula Bramante which was dealing with Cairns.
I was looking in the Web for Cairns and I was surprised about the variety and beauty of different Cairns - I was fascinated by this issue.
Last Saturday we were on a walk on the "Kahleberg" (905m), and my husband had the idea to build a cairn. We constructed a small arc, and from the right perspective it looks really huge!

Montag, 9. November 2015

Another very interesting challenge by the DIVA this week... Just a tiny taste.
I decided to use "Maryhill", white on black, and not to forget my little touch of pink.

AND: Today I decided to use this challenge to tell you my amazing news:
I have signed in CZT seminar #23!!!! And I will share this adventure together with other lovely ladies from Germany!! I am looking forward so much to meet the Zentangle Community and to be a part of them.
I would like to thank you all so much for your lovely and encouraging comments to my tiles. This gave me the confidence and the power to take this decision- I am sure this will have a great impact to my life!
Sometimes I can`t believe that it is true... I am so excited and can`t wait until April!
There is no CZT in my region of Germany yet- I hope to make it a little more popular in Saxony.

Montag, 2. November 2015

This week`s challenge the DIVA asked us to report about our Halloween day and create a tile using the new official tangle "Gordgeous" by Rick and Maria.

I must admit that I have not had a Halloween party, but that day we had another GORGEOUS party in my home town Dresden where we have a traditional soccer team "Dynamo Dresden".
This team has the best supporters which you can imagine. We are playing in the third league and have average 27.000 supporters each match!
We had a match on saturday with an overwhelming choreography of the supporters (30.000 people had a huge banner over their heads all over the stadium!) , our team won 3:2 and it was a phantastic party.

The colors of Dynamo are yellow and black and when I read the challenge I decided to dedicate this challenge to my team. That´s why the pumpkin in the foreground looks a little like a ball... ;-))

Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2015

This week guest Blogger Paula Bramante explained something about cairns on DIVAS weekly challenge and asked us to draw something related.
First I had to look into a dictionary ;-) and then I had a look at Google ;-))
(Oh yes, I admit: Google is my friend...)
I was surprised about the variety and beauty of lots of cairns.
One of the fotos inspired me to this little tile:
The first one I drew with the little ladybird (which is more fun), the second without (more spirituality)
I like them both and I am sure that I will give more attention to cairns now. Thank you for this inspiration, Paula!

This week the DIVA asked us to create a tile inspired by the nature.
We have had a wonderful, sunny autumn day today. I used three maple leafs which I dried this week for this challenge .
First I tangled on the leafs, put them on a sheet of paper and scanned them:

After that I tangled a little bit around the leaves, more and more, until the paper was filled completely. And then I coloured it with inktense pencils.

What a good experience to realize the beauty of the autumn with its stunning colours!

Today I started tangling without a special target. I started with In A Pod and let the tangles grow around it. I have been inspired by the tiles I see every day on your blogs..
And I wanted to use one of my Derwent Graphic liners to bring a little bit colour in it.
(But no Pink today!!)
I like the result, but I think all my tiles are rather similar style. May be I got stuck a little bit..

Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2015

Hello everybody!
This week I am on a business trip - I took some black and white tiles and some pens with me, so I have the opportunity to draw the DIVA challenge in my hotel room.
MUNCHIN is the tangle of this week. I love this pattern and I tried to tangle my tile even if I do not have all my pencils here. I miss my white pencil to shade something...
But - everything is possible - also a tile without shading!
I tried to highlight some areas instead. I like the result and had much fun with it.

Montag, 5. Oktober 2015

This week`s DIVA Cahllenge is a "UMT" - use my Tangle.
The tangle is called "Tri-bee" and is a new tangle of Beate Winkler (CZT).
As I saw the tangle I immediately had to try it - and I love it...
A beautiful week everybody!

The challenge of this month is to mix the tangles "Crescent Moon" and "Facade".
For my opinion these patterns fit very well together.
I loved it to mix them!
This time I drawed my tile in classic black and white.

Mittwoch, 30. September 2015

This week`s Challenge by guest Blogger Charlotte Carpentier :
"Use a stencil, dye the paper around and tangle in it..." This is what I understood.
Asking my collegue, she brought me a curve stencil (I do not know if this is the right word - we used it at school in mathematics about 35years ago;-)

As I am a natural scientist by profession I thought this would be the right one for me and this challenge.
I dyed it with watercolour. I used a toothbrush. ;-)
Here is the result:

Dienstag, 22. September 2015

"Tangle on something unexpected"
For this challenge I chose a foto of a beautiful landscape in Tuscany (Italy) .
I`ve been there last year.
The little road which is winding onto the hills is my string.
This was so much fun to draw tis tile - I could not imagine before!
I love this week`s challenge because you all have such fantastic and different ideas !

Mittwoch, 9. September 2015

This week Adele had another lovely challenge for the "StringThing".
We should use the patterns "Footlite" "Morf" and "Tour"
Like so often, the tangles are new to me. Whe I saw the string and the tangles I had immediately the idea how to draw the tile.
While I was not very successful with "Morf", I am pleased with "Footlite" and "Tour".
Thank you, Adele, for this suggestions..
This is my contribution to the "String Thing #109":

Hello all together - this is my little jubilee today: My 50th post on this blog "SimTangle".
Since I have started with tangling it became a passion for me and I am so glad to join this community of beautiful, creative people. Thank you all for your friendly and motivating comments - this makes me very happy.

This week the DIVA asked us to use the tangle "CanT" for her challenge.
Again, I used this tangle first time and played a little bit with it in my sketch book.
Then I had this idea for the challenge tile:

Below I show you a part of my exercises with "CanT" in my sketch book. It is fascinating, how many variations are possible with this tangle.

Dienstag, 1. September 2015

Welcome back, dear DIVA!
Yes, the guest bloggers did a great job this summer. Thanks to all of them!

This week you asked us to create a tile with the new official pattern by Rick and Maria Thomas - "Zenith".
I have seen this pattern in the Zentangle newsletter and I liked it immediately. But I did not take time to try it up to now.
Finally, today I spent some time with this pattern and played with it a little bit for your challenge.
It was not my intention to draw a Zendala, it just happened! And so I created my very first own Zendala without any template and I must say - I am proud of it!
Thank you for this great experience!

Samstag, 29. August 2015

Holiday!!
This week I am together with my husband in West Danmark at the North Sea in a cute and cosy little cottage.
It is so lovely here and so relaxing. The heathers are blooming. The weather is fine to sit on the terrace in the sun and to draw.
Today I spent some time to tangle for the Zendala Dare Challenge.
This week´s template reminded me to a flower, so I started my first tile with watercolors and tangeled over the colors.
As I was not so happy with the result (too much color?) I started a second attempt. In this tile I used a coloured pencil instead if graphite for shading.
I like this tile more, what do you think?

Dienstag, 25. August 2015

What an interesting new challenge by guest blogger Holly Atwater!
When reading first time I did not really understand the task, but after listening to the first Audio file it was rather clear.
Then I was a bit afraid, if I would understand all the text in English, but the voice and the articulation was so clear and calm that I was surprised to understand almost all words! (In the first Audio Meditation I had an online dictionary where I had to look two or three times..;-) This was not relaxing...
And then I thought: No mistake at Zentangle, so it doesn´t matter if all is perfect and then came the flow... Thank you, Holly for this interesting experience!

Samstag, 22. August 2015

This is the first time that I attend to the Zendala Dare Challenge.
My very first zendala I draw when Erin was on the DIVA Challenge blog as a guest blogger.
I am glad that I found this site because I like the regularity of the zendala strings - this is soo relaxing!!
Thank you, Erin, for your templates.
This is my result for this week, I am rather happy with it:

Freitag, 21. August 2015

This week Adele Bruno gave us the challenge to tangle the patterns
Asian Fans, Bud aud Budlite.
Again, three new patterns for me to try.
Thank you, Adele, for the lesson how to draw Asian Fans, so I tried it as you suggested. The Budlite and Bud are very nice with a little practice...
The string of this week is very nice as well.
Thank you, Adele!